We're running a BE2010 r3 and BE2012 server currently.
This weekend we will be switching from BE2010r3 to 2014. Fresh install etc. I do not need advice here.
What I do need help with is:
We use small tape loaders (8 slots), and are not using barcodes. We manually label the tape for which servers are on that tape.
With BE2010 I have
1 job that does a full backup all of our SQL servers (about 21 of them). I then have a job that takes that data on that one storage target and writes it all to a single tape. This is our SQL tape
1 job that does a full backup of our fileshares (several drives) and writes those to a different tape, this is the file share tape
1 Job that is for an excessively large SQL server, this as well writes to it's own tape
Having worked with 2012... it doesn't look like I can actually group the duplicate jobs to make sure they all land on one tape. I've seen posts about partitioning the tape loader, but that really isn't super helpful as I may at one point need to migrate a job on the 2012 environment over and that one has a job that uses 6 tapes.
Is it possible, other than partitioning the tape drive, to tell BE "I want you to write to the same tape as these servers"?